[Bug 11428] New: The steps for "A sequence of bytes starting with a 0x3C byte (ASCII <), optionally a 0x2F byte (ASCII /), and finally a byte in the range 0x41-0x5A or 0x61-0x7A (an ASCII letter)" seems bogus if the read byte in step 1 is ">". Consider <html>a="<meta char

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11428

           Summary: The steps for "A sequence of bytes starting with a
                    0x3C byte (ASCII <), optionally a 0x2F byte (ASCII /),
                    and finally a byte in the range 0x41-0x5A or 0x61-0x7A
                    (an ASCII letter)" seems bogus if the read byte in
                    step 1 is ">". Consider <html>a="<meta char
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
               URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#doc
                    umentEncoding
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
                    public-html@w3.org


Specification:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/parsing.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#documentEncoding

Comment:
The steps for "A sequence of bytes starting with a 0x3C byte (ASCII <),
optionally a 0x2F byte (ASCII /), and finally a byte in the range 0x41-0x5A or
0x61-0x7A (an ASCII letter)" seems bogus if the read byte in step 1 is ">".
Consider <html>a="<meta charset=utf-8>"

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Received on Monday, 29 November 2010 15:00:23 UTC